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Crackdown on Occupy Los Angeles camp
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More than 1,400 police officers, some in riot gear, cleared the Occupy Los Angeles camp early Nov. 30, driving protesters from a park around City Hall and arresting more than 200 who defied orders to leave.People gather in a circle in preparation for a police raid in the Occupy Los Angeles encampment at City Hall Park in Los Angeles, California November 29, 2011. Police in riot gear and biohazard suits removed anti-Wall Street activists from an encampment outside the Los Angeles City Hall on Wednesday, arresting dozens of people as they enforced the mayor's eviction order. REUTERS/David McNewA woman wearing a gas mask glances as police force people on the street to move during a police raid of the Occupy Los Angeles encampment at City Hall Park in Los Angeles, California early November 30, 2011. Occupy L.A. protesters have been camping on the lawns of City Hall since October 1, outlasting major encampments broken up by police in big cities across the nation. REUTERS/David McNewA man shouts at police from his tree house as the Occupy LA encampment is dismantled outside City Hall in Los Angeles November 30, 2011. The nearly two-month-old encampment is among the oldest and largest on the West Coast aligned with the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations protesting economic inequality in the country and the excesses of the U.S. financial systemLos Angeles police officers arrest an Occupy Los Angeles protester at the encampment at the Losd Angeles city hall on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Police in Los Angeles and Philadelphia stormed Occupy Wall Street encampments in both cities Wednesday, demanding protestors leave demonstration sites
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